decemberists on a december afternoon......

ok, so today i helped to wrap up the end-of-the-year inventory at the bikeshop......a tedious but necessary task....that includes counting everything saleable....and adding it all up in monetary terms......the counting part is the part that takes the most time...........though i must say that i found the adding machine part oddly satisfying......banging out the extended prices and then listening for the machine's refrain....i replayed an interview from yesterday's world cafe of the decemberists to accompany this adding machine task........i had no idea that the group included an accordian player....and that the accordian lends a unique and compelling sound to this band.......i couldn't quite follow whether the accordian played on the air was the accordian that had recently been stolen....along with all of the other band instruments excepting a violin......some had been recovered and some had not.....and at times i was distracted by the banging out of dollars and cents to catch all of the witty banter......i especially enjoyed the song billed a sone that didn't make it on their latest album...picaresque.......not sure what it was called.......and i regret that i didn't catch all of the discussion about the main songwriter's feelings that he was always out of synch with other songwriters when he got together with others in portland? or where-ever they come from in oregon.......but enough of december.....i am going to take my last nap of 2005....now that it is mid-afternoon....and the sun is streaming in the upstairs window......